From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Curiosity rover on Mars
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:52:38 -0700
Date: 2012-08-30T10:52:38-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k1o997$s5e$1@adenine.netfront.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85a9xcy5zr.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
On 08/30/2012 04:27 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <ggsub@pragmada.co.cc> writes:
>
>> it's in C, possibly "mostly auto-generated".
>
> Which means it's not in C, it's in some graphical language.
>
> If you use a compilation system for Ada that happens to use C as an
> intermediate language, would you say your application is "written in C,
> mostly auto-generated"?
The key word here is "possibly". If it's not mostly auto-generated, then it's in C.
If it is mostly auto-generated, I'd like to know what it was actually written in.
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Jeff Carter
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-08 14:41 Curiosity rover on Mars Peter C. Chapin
2012-08-08 18:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2012-08-09 5:23 ` Per Sandberg
2012-08-09 7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-09 8:55 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-08-09 15:37 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-08-10 20:32 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-08-10 7:30 ` Charles H. Sampson
2012-08-30 11:27 ` Stephen Leake
2012-08-30 17:52 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2012-08-30 19:34 ` johnscpg
2012-08-10 13:03 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
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